Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, ARDAMINE (GOREY), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CI)

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. WEXFORD, ARDAMINE (GOREY), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CI)
Date: 1859;1860;1864
Nature: Chancel windows by C & B, 1860. Also eastmost windown in S wall of nave, 1864, and westmost window in north wall, 1859.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/2907/ (last visited, Dec 2016).

Name: STREET, GEORGE EDMUND #
Building: CO. WEXFORD, ARDAMINE (GOREY), CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CI)
Date: 1860-62
Nature: New church (replacing church of 1829) in E. English style with semicircular apse. Built partly as memorial to Mr & Mrs Richards of Ardamine. To seat about 100. Ded. 1860. Licensed for worship, 4 Jul 1861. Cons. 26 May 1862. Ardamine limestone, Knockavacka stone dressings. Godwin's encaustic tiles. Irish marbles. Stained glass by Clayton & Co., London. Contr. & supervisor of work: John Kelly, Gorey
Refs: DB 3, 1 Jul 1861, 554; 4, 15 Jun 1862, 157; Wexford Independent, 29 Jun 1861, 31 May 1862 (information kindly supplied by Conor O'Brien, Annacurra, Co. Wicklow); J.B. Leslie, Ferns Clergy and Parishes (1936), 108; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 526;  exterior illus. in Clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 429;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 344.